Ethiopian boubou

Ethiopian boubou
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Malaconotidae
Genus: Laniarius
Species: L. aethiopicus
Binomial name
Laniarius aethiopicus
(JF Gmelin, 1789)
Synonyms

Laniarius ferrugineus aethiopicus (Gmelin, 1788)

The Ethiopian boubou (Laniarius aethiopicus) is a species of bird in the Malaconotidae family. It is found in Eritrea, Ethiopia, northwest Somalia, and northern Kenya.

Its natural habitat is moist savanna.

It's breast and belly are pinkish. It has a narrow wing stripe, extending across the median and larger wing coverts, and often a bit onto the secondary remiges. Outer tail feathers never have white tips.

Recent cladistic analysis of nDNA BRM15 intron-15 and mtDNA NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 and ATP synthase F0 subunit 6 sequence data indicates that the Ethiopian boubou is a polyphyletic cryptic species complex, which was once lumped with the tropical boubou, black boubou, and East Coast boubou.

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